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Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office

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Via LLRX – Employees are feeling burned over broken work-from-home promises and corporate culture ‘BS’ as employers try to bring them back to the office – As vaccinations and relaxed health guidelines make returning to the office a reality for more companies, there seems to be a disconnect between managers and their workers over remote… Continue Reading

The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well

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George, Shailini, The Law Student’s Guide to Doing Well and Being Well (May 2021). Carolina Academic Press, Forthcoming May 2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3834474 – “The ABA and most state bar associations have identified a wellness crisis in the legal profession, and called for educating students on how to better cope with the challenges of… Continue Reading

Amazon Publishing, DPLA Ink Deal to Lend E-books in Libraries

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Publishers Weekly: “The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) today announced that it has signed a much-anticipated agreement with Amazon Publishing to make all of the roughly 10,000 Amazon Publishing e-books and digital audiobooks available to libraries, the first time that digital content from Amazon Publishing will be made available to libraries. In a release… Continue Reading

Bots and Misinformation Spread on Social Media: Implications for COVID-19

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J Med Internet Res 2021;23(5):e26933. doi:10.2196/26933 – Published on 20.5.2021 in Vol 23, No 5 (2021): May. Bots and Misinformation Spread on Social Media: Implications for COVID-19 “As of March 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been responsible for over 115 million cases of COVID-19 worldwide, resulting in over 2.5 million deaths. As the virus spread… Continue Reading

The LBJ Telephone Tapes

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“The LBJ Telephone Tapes: Inside the Presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson is a collaboration between the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Foundation and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. Featuring representative conversations from the secret tapes recorded by President Johnson during his time in office, The LBJ Telephone Tapes provides extraordinary… Continue Reading

A new way of looking at trust in media: Do Americans share journalism’s core values?

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The Media Insight Project April 14, 2021: “The deep divides over trust in the news media are usually portrayed as largely ideological. Democrats are seven times more likely than Republicans to say they trust the mainstream media, and independents are four times as likely.But the argument over media trust often has the feel of people… Continue Reading

Dark Patterns Tip Line

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Dark Patterns Tip Line: “Dark patterns are common in websites and apps we use everyday, but they’re sometimes hard to spot because they’re designed to deceive us. Through secretly obtaining personal information and making us do things we don’t want to do, dark patterns can create inconveniences or even serious harms. Every day, we’re exploited… Continue Reading

Ten Tips to Create a Legal Writing Course That Prepares Students for The Real World

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Lamparello, Adam, Ten Tips to Create a Legal Writing Course That Prepares Students for The Real World (April 29, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3836328 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3836328 “In the past year, COVID-19 has transformed how legal education – and legal writing – is delivered to students. Online instruction replaced in-person instruction, professors and students were forced… Continue Reading